Photoshop has become the leading digital image editing application for the Internet, print, and other new media disciplines. It is embraced by millions of graphic artists, print designers, visual communicators, and others. Photoshop has been and continues to be a print industry standard. It's likely that nearly every picture you've seen has either been created or edited by Photoshop. The powerful tools used to enhance and edit these pictures are also capable for use in the digital world including the infinite possibilities of the Internet. Images can be crafted and manipulated so skillfully with Photoshop that — in many cases — you can't tell an altered image from an unaltered one.

In the past few versions, Photoshop has been accompanied with ImageReady. This sub-program is specifically made to deal with web applications including slicing Web images, producing rollovers, supporting enhanced image maps, and compressing graphics files efficiently for the Web. It is almost impossible to use or even learn all of Photoshop's tools to their maximum benefit. Photoshop is capable of Fixing images with poor color or lighting conditions, improving detail and clarity in washed-out images or reveal parts of an image hidden in shadow, Combine multiple photos together to create a panoramic photograph, Creating business cards, letterheads, logos, flyers, newsletters, and posters using images and text and much, much, much more.